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NIH Loan Repayment
Program
The program offers a research track option for the fourth (flexible)
year of pathology training. The track is structured to meet
the organizational eligibility requirements for the NIH Loan
Repayment Program. Residents who opt for the research track
are interested in pursuing academic careers that will involve their
participation in clinical research.
Participating investigators include:
Larry
Dobbs, MD, PhD (www.pathology.ecu.edu/Public/faculty/dobbs.htm)
John Lehman, PhD (www.pathology.ecu.edu/Public/faculty/lehman.htm)
Don Hoffman, PhD (www.pathology.ecu.edu/Public/faculty/hoffman.htm)
Warren Knudson, PhD (www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/anatomy/faculty/knudsonw.cfm)
R. Martin Roop, PhD (www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/microbiology/roop.cfm)
Mark Mannie, PhD (www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/microbiology/mannie.cfm)
C. Jeffrey Smith, PhD (www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/microbiology/smith.cfm)
Additional information from NIH on the repayment
program follows:
The National Institute of Health (NIH) will repay
your outstanding student loans through is extramural Loan Repayment
Programs (LRPs) if you are or will be conducting nonprofit
biomedical or behavioral research and meet other eligibility
requirements. The application cycle for the extramural LRPs
opened September 1st and includes programs for Clinical Research,
Pediatric Research, Health Disparities Research, Contraception and
Infertility Research and Clinical Research for individuals from
Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Applications will be accepted
online until 8:00pm Eastern time on December 1, 2008, at
www.lrp.nih.gov.
BENEFITS: New LRP contracts are awarded for
a two-year period and repay up to $35,000 of qualified educational
debt annually. Tax offsets also are provided as an additional
benefit. Participants may apply for competitive renewals,
which are issued for one or two years. Undergraduate,
graduate, medical school, and other health professional school loans
qualify for repayment. An NIH grant or other NIH funding is
not required to apply for or participate in the LRPs.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must possess a
doctoral-level degree (except for the Contraception and Infertility
Research LRP); be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident;
devote 20 hours or more per week to conducting qualified research
funded by a university, nonprofit organization, or federal, state,
or local government entity; and have qualified education loan debt
equal to or exceeding 20 percent of their institutional base salary.
AWARDS: Each year, some 1,600 research
scientists benefit from the more than $70 million NIH invests in
their careers through the extramural LRPs. Twenty-six percent
of awards are made to individuals within one to five years after
receiving their doctoral degree. More than 75 percent of
awards go to individuals within 10 years after receiving their
doctoral degree. Approximately 40 percent of new applications
and 70 percent of renewal applications are funded.
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